# Your favorite fictional TV Show/Movie President? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 30, 2008, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-tv-show-movie-president/470222 "2008-10-30T07:16:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ChrisBooth12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@ChrisBooth12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisBooth12)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-tv-show-movie-president/470222/1 "2008-10-30T07:16:48Z")
With all the movies and tv shows that have a president which one of them is your favorite and wish could be a real one? I think the president from The Sum of All Fears is a very good one and the actor fits the roll ---
**Author:** ![footballisplayedwithyourfeet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9f8e36/32.png) [@footballisplayedwithyourfeet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/footballisplayedwithyourfeet)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-tv-show-movie-president/470222/2 "2008-10-30T10:48:01Z")
Must be, hands down, Jed Bartlet(t?) from the West Wing. I want a nobel laureate as President! (and I’m from a country that doesn’t even have a President…or that many nobel laureates come to think of it) ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-tv-show-movie-president/470222/3 "2008-10-30T11:05:50Z")
> [@footballisplayedwithyourfeet](#): > > Must be, hands down, Jed Bartlet(t?) from the West Wing. I want a nobel laureate as President! (and I’m from a country that doesn’t even have a President…or that many nobel laureates come to think of it) Yup. I completely agree (even though he could have picked better VP.s) ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-tv-show-movie-president/470222/4 "2008-10-30T13:39:52Z")
Laura Roslin: My president can put your president out an airlock. tied with… David Palmer: My president will try to sell you life insurance. But it still sounds really commanding and powerful and sexy. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-tv-show-movie-president/470222/5 "2008-10-30T14:23:41Z")
As always, my answer is Nixon’s head from Futurama. “Nixon’s back!!!” ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-tv-show-movie-president/470222/6 "2008-10-30T14:28:13Z")
Andy Shepherd from [The American President](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112346/). I disagree with his views on gun control, but the speech he gives at the end of that movie is required viewing in my AmGovt classes. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-tv-show-movie-president/470222/7 "2008-10-30T14:36:39Z")
Harrison Ford’s president from Air Force One. He can kick your ass and handle a submachinegun. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-tv-show-movie-president/470222/8 "2008-10-30T17:03:56Z")
David Palmer is my favorite. That is until we vote Jack Bauer into office. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-tv-show-movie-president/470222/9 "2008-10-30T22:05:15Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Andy Shepherd from [The American President](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112346/). I disagree with his views on gun control, but the speech he gives at the end of that movie is required viewing in my AmGovt classes. That’s a great movie and a great speech! ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-tv-show-movie-president/470222/10 "2008-10-30T22:09:02Z")
> [@voguevixen](#): > > That’s a great movie and a great speech! Since Aaron Sorkin wrote both American President and The West Wing, can we say that Pres. Andrew Shepherd and Pres. Jed Bartlet are really the same person? ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-tv-show-movie-president/470222/11 "2008-10-31T13:31:02Z")
The presidents in BSG and Jack & Bobby, as well as the presidents played by Morgan Freeman and Geena Davis. And of course, Idiocracy. ---
**Author:** ![Mitijea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Mitijea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mitijea)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-tv-show-movie-president/470222/12 "2008-10-31T14:03:03Z")
People actually like Laura Roslin? huh… But then I like David Palmer, even though he was a terrible president. (But Wayne, his brother, isn’t even worth considering.) ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-tv-show-movie-president/470222/13 "2008-10-31T15:08:34Z")
[Dave](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106673/) from the movie with the same name, pretending to be President Mitchell who, along with his CPA played by Charles Grodin, solved the budget crisis over lunch, and who sang in the shower, “Hail to the Chief, he’s the one we all say ‘Hail’ to…” ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-tv-show-movie-president/470222/14 "2008-10-31T15:16:53Z")
> [@ChrisBooth12](#): > > With all the movies and tv shows that have a president which one of them is your favorite and wish could be a real one? Merkin Muffley is my favourite but his foreign policy towards Russia might be a concern to some voters. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-tv-show-movie-president/470222/15 "2008-10-31T15:23:34Z")
> [@Chez\_Guevara](#): > > Merkin Muffley is my favourite but his foreign policy towards Russia might be a concern to some voters. Right: during the crisis, he was prepared to negotiate with the Soviet Premier and the Soviet ambassador, rather than (as his advisers suggested) nuke the Soviets back into the stone age. In my view, the best model for handling a serious crisis (even if, due to Soviet stupidity, the crisis led to the End of the World). ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-tv-show-movie-president/470222/16 "2008-10-31T15:33:46Z")
> [@RikWriter](#): > > Harrison Ford’s president from Air Force One. He can kick your ass and handle a submachinegun. I’d much rather have a President who understood economics and how to make decisions / delegate like Bartlett. ---
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-tv-show-movie-president/470222/17 "2008-10-31T15:41:52Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > Right: during the crisis, he was prepared to negotiate with the Soviet Premier and the Soviet ambassador, rather than (as his advisers suggested) nuke the Soviets back into the stone age. In my view, the best model for handling a serious crisis (even if, due to Soviet stupidity, the crisis led to the End of the World). Thirded. Ok he came of as a bit … odd, but the man knew how to communicate. Just watch him deal with a drunken soviet Premiere in explaining that one of his nation’s nuclear wings was already heading into soviet territory ready to Nuke them. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hWP_rEWG2xk/hqdefault.jpg "Dr. Strangelove - President & Russian President") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWP_rEWG2xk) He also knew how to keep his generals in line… well at least the ones who weren’t obsessed with our purity of essence. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-tv-show-movie-president/470222/18 "2008-10-31T23:36:55Z")
> [@zamboniracer](#): > > [Dave](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106673/) from the movie with the same name, pretending to be President Mitchell who, along with his CPA played by Charles Grodin, solved the budget crisis over lunch, and who sang in the shower, “Hail to the Chief, he’s the one we all say ‘Hail’ to…” If we’re including doppelgangers, then I have to offer up Richard Dreyfus in Moon Over Parador! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-tv-show-movie-president/470222/19 "2008-10-31T23:45:37Z")
President Frankenstein from end of _Death Race 2000_. He knows how to handle the liberal media. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-tv-show-movie-president/470222/20 "2008-11-01T00:07:10Z")
Jed Bartlet easily first. Close second is Frederick March as President Jordan Lyman in [“Seven Days in May”](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058576/) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-tv-show-movie-president/470222.md?page=2)